Evaluating the impact of a youth-led domestic violence strategy is the focus of new research at Griffith University.
“Young people helping other young people build respectful relationships is a critical way of preventing violence against women in future generations,” says Alanah Dwyer, a youth ambassador for Logan-based youth-led violence prevention program R4Respect.
Also a Bachelor of Family and Child Studies student at Griffith, Alanah says the program delivers workshops to high schools around the district, creating awareness of the need for respectful relationships.
“It is amazing to see how these young people relate to us as other young people – just listening to them and what they have to say to us after our presentations is really eye opening and we feel we have achieved so much in raising awareness of the issues.”
R4Respect has now just received a $172,000 grant from Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS).
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